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Husband commits suicide after wife and another man are found dead, deputies say

Husband commits suicide after wife and another man are found dead, deputies say

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Updated: 10:52 PM EDT Aug 27, 2017

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WEBVTT HOW IT ALL ENDED IN TRAGEDY.ROBERT:rt A LOVE TRIANGLE ENDS INTHREE DEATHS.THAT'S WHAT THE MARION COUNTYSHERIFF'S OFFICE SAYS LED TO ADOUBLE HOMICIDE AND SUICIDESATURDAY.PARKED ON THE SIDErt OF A DOLLARGENERAL IN WEIRSDALE, THISMAROON SUV.INSIDE, INVESTIGATORS FOUND39-YEAR-OLD STEPHANIE GONZALEZAND 44-YEAR-OLD JEFFERY DURDEN.rtBOTH WERE KILLED.SHELL CASINGS LITTERED THEPARKING LOT SATURDAY.INVESTIGATORS NOW CONFIRM THATCOUPLE WAS SHOT TO DEATH.rtTHE HEARTBREAKING NEWS, BRINGINGMUCH OF STEPHANIE'S FAMILY TOTEARS.BUT HER ESTRANGED HUSBAND,JOSEPH GONZALEZ, WAS FOUND 20MILES AWAY AT A BURGrtER KING INOCALA. THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE TELLS USTHEY CALLED THE 51-YEAR-OLD TOTALK TO HIM, AND HE DIDN'T SAYrtMUCH BEFORE TURNING THE GUN ONHIMSELF. RIGHT NOW, DEPUTIES AREN'TSAYING IF JOSEPH PULLED THETRIGGER ON HIS WIFE AND HERLOVER.WESH 2 FOUND OUT STEPHANIErtGONZALEZ AND JEFFREY DURDEN WEREPREVIOUSLY MARRIED, DIVORCED IN2011, AND RECENTLY REKINDLEDTHEIR RELATIONSHIP.FOR NOW, THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE ISWORKING TO FIND OUT IF SOMEONErtELSE COULD BE RESPONSIBLE FORTHEIR DEATHS.REPORTING IN MARION COUNTY,ROBERT LOWE, WESH 2, THE NEWS

Husband commits suicide after wife and another man are found dead, deputies say

A man and woman have been found dead outside a Dollar General store in Weirsdale. A short time later, the woman's husband killed himself, Marion County Sheriff's Office.

A deceased man and woman were found in an SUV in the parking lot on 13842 SE Highway 42 Saturday morning, the Marion County Sheriff's Office said.

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The man and woman were later identified as Stephanie Gonzalez, 39, and Jeffery Durden, 44.

Both Gonzalez and Durden suffered gunshot wounds, deputies said. Their deaths are being investigated as a homicide.

"Detectives also determined through their preliminary investigation that Stephanie Gonzalez and Durden were in a relationship," the MCSO release said.

Detectives later made contact with Stephanie Gonzalez's husband, Joseph Gonzalez, 51, behind a Burger King located off SE Maricamp Road. He shot himself as they approached, deputies said. Gonzalez later died at Ocala Regional Medical Center. His death has been ruled a suicide, deputies said.